Restarting the active reaction with a beehive+glider collision seems like a neat trick.

There are a few period-multiplying conduits that have a beehive as one of the stages. If it happened to work out, for example, you could send a couple of signals into simeks' new period quadrupler, and then do something with the beehive.

Here are the other H-to-beehive converters I have in my old collection:

The third one on the right doesn't use up the Herschel -- the beehive is generated in passing. It was used at one point in a G->LWSS converter, and then Guam figured out how to turn it into a clean conduit, if I recall correctly. The other two are terminal converters that have pretty good clearance and "edginess".

I have another H-to-beehive saved, that drops the beehive right in the middle of the conduit on top of the input Herschel. Unless there's some reason why it's useful in a specific case, I suspect that anything as non-edgy as this will not be worth posting on this thread -- there are way too many millions of similar converters.

That's a nice simple one -- not a lot of clearance, but you don't always need much. Here's another single-eater H-to-block with similarly low clearance that turned out to be useful in signal circuitry. In the example at the right, a glider gets out past the tub-with-tail eater only if the block has been placed:

Blocks are relatively easy for a Herschel signal to produce "in passing", without using up the Herschel. A B-heptomino makes a natural block if you leave it to its own devices, and a Herschel makes an edgy block just after the first natural glider. There are also several period multipliers that can be used as block generators.

Here are the other H-to-block converters from my small collection. The one on the right is really a period tripler:

And here's something from 2003 that I'd totally forgotten about -- yet another stop-and-restart circuit, using a block-on-beehive of all things. It could potentially be turned into a period multiplier: if the restart glider doesn't appear, the next Herschel will reset the circuit cleanly. Looks like there are ways to clear the restart glider's output path if the block-on-beehive is missing, too. Maybe these stop-and-restart circuits should be collected in a separate thread?

He also found a few p2 factories based on a transparent blinker reaction.

There's some other glider-activated factories around here, and a lot of them are turned into receivers, so, go search for those.

---

As for H->object conduits/factories, I've mentioned the idea of collecting an H-to-Block for as many relative locations of blocks as possible--not necessarily because that would be useful right now, but for the heck of it. Perhaps later on they'd find a use. And I've certainly seen a whole bunch of conduit prospects that terminate in a block instead of a signal, but typically, those aren't reported. I've been looking for something to do, so I'll start saving those in a folder somewhere in case they're ever needed.

Tanner JacobiColdlander, a novel, available in paperback and as an ebook.

M. I. Wright wrote:Not a still-life, but here's a TL factory I found while trying to do something else...

That one seems to come up fairly regularly. Here's a February posting by simsim314 containing the same converter.

It would be nice to find a conduit that can reliably turn traffic lights into something else. But it will probably need a transparent catalyst or two, found with CatForce or ptbsearch, unless Bellman can come up with something.

There's a known conduit that might be called a "TL-to-glider converter", but it's not really. It probably only works for the one specific H-to-TL above.

At the time that the eater and tub interact, the pre-traffic-light reaction is still strongly connected to a fading spark from higher up, which plays a big part in the creation of the glider. It seems pretty unlikely that any other traffic light source will have the same exact pre-TL predecessor.

To be generally useful as a connector, it seems as if a hypothetical TL-to-something-else converter would have to have its first interaction less than ten ticks before the formation of the traffic light.

I actually found the catalytic longboat a while back, then just recently found the tub+eater extension that restores the block for exactly one tick (via Bellman, surprisingly). That last block, at the top, preserves the restoration.

Tanner JacobiColdlander, a novel, available in paperback and as an ebook.